Yeah. /\ ------ THIS.
Card has actually been getting weirder about it too. So I wonder if in another decade the levee will break?
@Lurksnomore Actually, a high percentage of virulent homophobes are reacting to their own same-sex attractions. Or so the few studies which have been done say. That also matches the experience of lots of openly gay men (including James Baldwin, who wrote about it in the 1940s).
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Yes – it’s one thing if people hate gays out of blind obedience or unexplained rage, but there is a very special slappability to the person who thinks they’re making intellectual arguments for homophobia. And sci-fi is riddled with that.
Reading Frank Herbert loftily explain why homo attraction is dumb and evil (right before he “objectively” explains which type of men’s butts is the yummiest) is like listening to a toddler lecture you on pension planning. It’s like, Frank… who would you guess is the expert on this subject? Maybe the reason no one else seems to have had these brilliant insights is that gay people outgrew them as children, and actual straight people don’t think about it much at all?
It’s the most frustrating strain of homophobia, because it would pop like a balloon if these people could experience a single fucking moment of self-awareness. It’s so painfully obvious to everyone else.
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Well I think you disproved Davis’s Law this time, Rob.
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